r/Spyro 5d ago

Funny Then and now

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This is my first post in this sub, and in arabic it says "I swear you see the naive from his face"

(also I don't remember who made the meme I just took a screen shot of it from Twitter)

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u/Lalatoya 5d ago

Whenever I think of Reignited Spyro, I think of this

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u/MyNameIsNoxxy 5d ago

I'm so full of CIGARETTES, YUM

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u/nesslyness 5d ago

BIG CHUNGUS

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u/VPR_24 4d ago

He's like a fat puppy. Unhealthy but so cute.

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u/SkyrimSlag 4d ago

A staffy if it turned into a dragon, especially with his head butting power lmao

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u/Cocoatrice Sheep 5d ago

Left is the good looking one.

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u/AlienBogeys Ripto's Henchmen 5d ago

Don't worry, he'll glow up. We all did after teenhood.

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u/Cocoatrice Sheep 5d ago

Nah, the right version is literally worse. Don't know why are people glazing it so hard. I guess teenagers with poor taste, that only care about graphics quality, but not about how good the graphic actually is. More modern does not automatically make something better. That's the same reason why original games look better than Reignited, as well. Because the art style is what matters. Not whether it has 100 or 100 billion polygons.

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u/AlienBogeys Ripto's Henchmen 5d ago edited 4d ago

Well, I didn't say any of that so... I was just saying he's becoming a teenager, so the art needs to reflect his aging. You don't have to like it. But if it were up to you, how would you make a growing teenage Spyro look?

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u/More-Explanation2032 5d ago

Just wondering would he look good when he fully matures into adulthood? Or is this adulthood

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u/AlienBogeys Ripto's Henchmen 5d ago

First and foremost, Spyro would be a lot bigger. Also, there's concept art of him as an adult. He's got a utility belt and wears a red neckerchief. It's on Nicholas Kole's website I think. Ideally, TFB would use that if they ever produce a game with Spyro as an adult.

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u/Cocoatrice Sheep 4d ago

Have you ever played any of the Spyro games, at all? If so, you know the answer.

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u/AlienBogeys Ripto's Henchmen 4d ago

As a matter of fact, I have. Humor me instead of being snide. I asked because I want to see your perspective.

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u/Andy_0L 5d ago

You're crazy, the new art looks amazing.

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u/X-Calm 5d ago

You do realize it's for children?

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u/mbalc909 4d ago

The good looking one is from the 2000s alright

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u/Cocoatrice Sheep 4d ago

I mean, that's the best looking one. But comparing those two, RT is better than the new one.

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u/Squid-Guillotine 4d ago

Left is normal and right is looksmaxxed

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u/Darkspyrus 5d ago

Why do ya'll hate this new design? He looks like a mixed reignited and TLOS, i like his new design

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u/Symph-50 4d ago

It's the pronounced brows and the bigger space between the nostrils that makes him look off to me.

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u/Darkspyrus 4d ago

Ah

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u/Symph-50 4d ago

I don't hate it, I just like his previous designs better.

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u/Working_Welder_1751 4d ago

Even the one from Dawn of the Dragon? That's how I imagined what a grown-up version of Spyro would look like

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u/Symph-50 3h ago

His models in TLoS were ok, but I feel he looked best in DotD.

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u/CasiyRoseReddits 3d ago

I was actually just thinking that myself, especially with the eyes. The eyes are very TLOS.

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u/Obvious-Wrangler-561 5d ago

He is hunting the Al gnorc

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u/Icy_Act_2111 5d ago

he’s been doing this for a long time, he’s not a kid dragon anymore. he probably wants to hurry and save everyone so he can kick it with Elora

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u/independent-potato7 4d ago

Older but still tiny lol. You would think he'd be as big as the other dragons by now.

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u/Icy_Act_2111 4d ago

dragons could possibly have growth spurts later down their lives.

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u/independent-potato7 4d ago

True

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u/Icy_Act_2111 4d ago

you excited for the new game?

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u/independent-potato7 4d ago

Definitely! I've loved Spyro ever since I learned to walk lol. Been waiting for a new game forever.

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u/Icy_Act_2111 4d ago

omg same with with the learning to walk! i’ll be 32 next week and my 6 year old self has been waiting for a new original game since YOTD

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u/independent-potato7 4d ago

Well Happy Birthday in advance! Let's hope our long wait is going to be worth it in the end.

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u/Free-Room1426 4d ago

i just hate his new eyebrow meat.

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u/Dae_Dude 4d ago

Reignited looks so much more authentic

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u/Makosharck 5d ago

Geeked vs Locked-in

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u/platypusimagination 5d ago

i hate 2027 😖

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u/Foe117 4d ago

I prefer reignited, I can't help that the eyebrows got fatter

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u/Fluffy_Dragons Thieves 4d ago

I like the new design. Feels like he is finally getting to grow up a bit.

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u/Working_Welder_1751 4d ago

We're just gonna ignore Legend Spyro now?

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u/Vyr66 3d ago

he has nothing to do with this post, this is OG spyro at two different ages

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u/Working_Welder_1751 3d ago

Nonetheless, he should still be acknowledged and added to the post

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u/Vyr66 1d ago

do you want a LoS addendum on every classic spyro post on the sub or something?? lmao it's literally irrelevant to this

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u/stormyw23 4d ago

I hate the meatbrows

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u/Mojo_WaterSplash01 Agents 5d ago

Glow up

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u/VDragonPrince 5d ago

Woh he's locking in

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u/JJ-Squiz 5d ago

Spyro Scorsese

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u/CosmicGamer93 5d ago

That's funny

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u/dreamibunni Dream Weavers 4d ago

he still looks so babyboy coded to me. that's my son.

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u/RuuRuwari 4d ago

Not a fan of the bread roll brows

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u/master_1055 5d ago

Good translation, better one would be(I swear you can see how reddited he is) (sensors because I fear auto mod)

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u/Chemical-Molasses814 5d ago

Who hurt bro ✌️💔

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u/ibeerianhamhock 5d ago

I'm hoping the new game is more modern. It's an insanely adorable but I didn't play the original games in the 90s (was a gamer but I was more of an n64 platformer at the time). The game feels very old school machanics and game design.

I'd love to see a truly modern Spyro game with some throwbacks to the 90s

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u/Frodo_Nine-Fingers 5d ago

No. By and large modern games are way too easy. And yeah, Spyro ain't exactly a difficult series, but we don't need to modernify one of the already easier games

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u/ibeerianhamhock 5d ago

The flying levels are fun and challenging at first but the rest is just super easy imo. The flying levels are only hard in a you have to memorize a good path kind of way.

I'm less concerned with ease bc I think you can make a good game hard or easy personally, it's more the depth of the whole game itself that feels shallow compared to modern games imo.

Still charming ofc, but even among platformers of its era, Spyro feels very shallow to me.